Those denied visas included philosopher Richard Rorty and several Nobel laureates, who were to participate in a conference with independent Serbian intellectuals.

The party is expected to continue pursuing a policy of involving outside social forces, such as independent Catholic intellectuals, in consultations.

Stevanović founded the Liberal Forum in Belgrade, together with a couple of independent intellectuals.

People once believed there were notable independent intellectuals because they were instructed to seek out and prize them.

Yet he fears that independent public intellectuals are in decline.

In 1964, she opposed a Communist-backed protest to The Times against independent intellectuals, demanding freedom of speech instead.

In general, Mr. Jacoby's heart is with bohemian and independent intellectuals who consider their integrity to be bound up in resistance to "the system."

According to Buruma, Fukuzawa "was one of the first - and still uncommon - examples of an independent Japanese intellectual."

The new Ministers of Justice and of Industry, Mining and Energy Resources were described as "independent intellectuals".

My country needs independent intellectuals, independent economic actors, independent spirits.